Excessive Exclamation!!

Monday, February 25, 2013

Get some balance in your life!!!!

If this was written in Spanish, maybe there would be more opportunity for balance:

"¡¡¡¡Conseguir un cierto equilibrio en su vida!!!!"

Submitted by "Ready Freddy."

News for Students!!!

News for students: one punctuation mark will suffice.

Submitted by "Ready Freddy."

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Presidents' Day Super Sale!!!

I'm sure our founding fathers would be so proud to know that all these years later, we're celebrating their special day with some excitment!!!

Great for sauces!!

I would have expected better from a penguin advertising frozen basil.

Thank you :) !!

I'd like to get some official clarification on if emoticons count as punctuation.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Plaease call us!

We care about your comments. We don't care about our spelling!

The Grammar Police

The exclamation point is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume (shouting), and often marks the end of a sentence. Example, "Watch Out!" A Sentence ending in an exclamation mark is an actual exclamation ("Wow!", "Boo!"), the imperative mood ("Stop!"), or intended to be astonishing or show astonishment ("They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!). Overly frequent use of the exclamation mark is generally considered poor writing, for it distracts the reader and reduces the mark's meaning. And, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "An exclamation point is like laughing at your own jokes."